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Krakow: Hollywood director Steven Spielberg said on Monday he hoped that the Holocaust commemorations taking place in Poland on Tuesday will be a warning for future generations, in light of a rising tide of anti-Semitism and intolerance against Jews.
Spielberg was talking to Holocaust survivors in the southern Polish city of...

Jerusalem: Two Palestinians armed with a meat cleaver and a gun killed five people in a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday before being shot dead by police, the deadliest such incident in six years in the holy city.
Three of the victims held dual US-Israeli citizenship and a fourth man was a...

Three people, including a 14-year-old boy, were killed on Sunday at two different Jewish community facilities in a Kansas City-area suburb, and a man was in custody as police investigated whether the shootings were anti-Semitic, authorities said.
Police said it was too early to determine a motive, but they were not...

Hungary's main Jewish group voted on Sunday to boycott official Holocaust commemorations this year unless they more clearly show the role of local citizens in the Nazi deportation and killing of Hungarian Jews.
The Hungarian Jewish Congregations' Association (Mazsihisz) decided to stay away from events marking the 70th anniversary of June...

Israel freed 26 Palestinian prisoners on Wednesday, the second stage of a limited amnesty designed to help USsponsored peace talks that have been dogged by divisions on both sides.
The inmates, convicted of murder in the killing of Israelis before or just after interim accords were signed two decades ago, were...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday that the Nazis committed a "reprehensible" crime against the Jewish people, when he was asked in a television interview whether he accepted that the Holocaust occurred.
"I am not a historian and when it comes to speaking of the dimensions of the Holocaust it...

Amid speculations of an impending US strike on Syria, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday held an urgent security consultations with his top officials and said the Jewish nation was "prepared for any eventuality".
Israel was not involved in the Syrian Civil War, but if it discerns any attempt at...

Kolkata: A new documentary is on its way to showcasing the status of the dwindling number of Jews in the city through the eyes of the youngest member of the community.
Filmed by director duo Jaydip Mukherjee and Aloke Banerjee, the documentary will focus on Shalom Israel, caretaker of the Jewish...

Warsaw (Poland): Holocaust survivors, politicians, religious leaders and others are marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day with solemn prayers and the now oftrepeated warnings to never let such horrors happen again. Events took place at sites including AuschwitzBirkenau on Sunday, the former death camp where Hitler's Germany killed at least 1.1...

Churachandpur: A group of 50 Jews said to descend from one of the 10 Lost Tribes prepared on Thursday to emigrate to Israel from their village in northeastern India.
The members of the Bnei Menashe community prayed in their local synagogue and then hugged their crying relatives before heading off to...

Los Angeles: A filmmaker has gone into hiding after his movie attacking Islam's prophet Muhammad sparked assaults on U.S. missions in Egypt and Libya, where an American diplomat was killed.
Writer and director Sam Bacile spoke on the phone Tuesday from an unidentified location. He remained defiant, saying Islam is a...

London: European rabbis said on Tuesday that they were lobbying Apple to pull a mobile app version of 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,' a notorious antiSemitic forgery.
The Conference of European Rabbis, which represents Orthodox Jewish congregations across the continent, says it wants the iPhone manufacturer to stop selling...

Berlin: A Jewish World War I veteran was allegedly spared for a while, at least from Nazi persecution thanks to a letter that claimed Adolf Hitler wanted him protected, a German Jewish newspaper reported.
The Nazi leader ordered the genocide of all Europe's Jews but apparently wanted Ernst Hess,...

New Delhi: On June 12, 1942, Anne Frank, a Germanborn Jewish girl living in Amsterdam, received a diary for her 13th birthday; in it, she wrote, "I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to with anyone, and I hope you...

New York: The signature under the typewritten words on yellowing sheets of nearly centuryold paper is unmistakable: Adolf Hitler, with the last few scribbled letters drooping downward.
The date is 1919 and, decades before the Holocaust, the 30yearold German soldier "born in Austria" penned what are believed to be Hitler's first...

New Delhi: In the capital of one of the world's most religiouslydiverse countries, a Rabbi who has never been ordained bends ancient customs, ensuring New Delhi's ten Jewish families a place to worship.
Unlike most synagogues, there is no separation of men and women as Jewishborn worshippers, converts and followers of...

London: A rare copy of Adolf Hitler's autobiography 'Mein Kampf', signed by the dictator himself, will go on sale soon and is expected to sell for 30,000 pounds.
The first edition of the book, which the Nazi ruler wrote while he was in the Landsberg prison in Germany in 1925,...

Paris: French fashion house Dior said Tuesday it had taken steps to fire star British designer John Galliano, who is accused of making repeated antiSemitic outbursts at a bar in Paris.
Christian Dior Couture said in a statement it had "decided on his (Galliano's) immediate dismissal and begun the process of...

Jerusalem: Israel's Supreme Court gave the green light on Thursday for the continued operation of gendersegregated "modesty buses" serving ultraOrthodox Jews.
But the court, ruling in response to petitions by liberal Jewish groups opposed to backofthebus seating for women, said the practice was acceptable only if female passengers were not coerced...

Tokyo: A Japanese discount chain said Tuesday it will pull a Nazi costume from its shelves after receiving a complaint from an American Jewish organization.
The costume on sale at retailer Don Quijote Co. includes a black jacket with a red swastika armband in a package adorned with a sketch resembling...

London: A handwritten story by Franz Kafka that was never published has been found in a secret archive of the author's private papers.
The discovery was reportedly made after an Israeli court rejected an application to keep secret a vast collection of Kafka's writings that lay buried in vaults of three...

Vatican City: Pope Benedict on Saturday put his wartime predecessor Pope Pius XII, accused by Jews of turning a blind eye to the Holocaust, back on the road to Roman Catholic sainthood.
Jewish groups had asked the Pope to freeze the process that could lead to eventual sainthood until more World...

Mumbai: Details of negotiations and phone conversations between 26/11 terrorists at Nariman House in Mumbai and the Israeli Embassy in Washington were revealed at the Mumbai special court on Tuesday.
The court heard a CD of telephone conversations between the terrorists who attacked Mumbai in November 2008 and Israeli officials. So...

Jerusalem: Religiously devout Jews barred by rabbis from surfing the Internet may now "Koogle" it on a new "kosher" search engine, the site manager said on Sunday.
Yossi Altman said Koogle, a play on the names of a Jewish noodle pudding and the ubiquitous Google, appears to meet the standards...

Kochi: It was a wedding at the Kochi Synagogue that had plenty to cheer about.
The first Jewish wedding after 21 years took place in Kochi on Sunday. Scores of Jews had gathered and they finally had something to celebrate after the Nariman House killings in Mumbai.
The merry making was...

New Delhi: Is the world's most wanted Nazi war criminal hiding in Chile or Argentina? Well, that question is being posed afresh after the Simon Wiesenthal Centre claimed on Tuesday that they are tracking Aribert Heim in these two countries.
Simon Wiesenthal Centre, the human rights organisation, claims Heim, also known...

Berlin: Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, believed to be the last surviving member of the inner circle of plotters who attempted to kill Adolf Hitler in 1944 with a briefcase bomb, has died. He was 90.
The German military said in a statement Friday that the former army major died on Thursday...

New Delhi: Christians across the world are observing Good Friday today. This is the day Jesus Christ is said to have been crucified by the Romans.
Good Friday is marked by prayer meetings and fasting. In many churches around the world, the sequence of events leading to the crucifixion is...

Jerusalem: Complaints by Jewish settlers angry at Facebook for listing them as residents of "Palestine" prompted the popular social networking Web site to allow users to switch themselves back to Israel.
Facebook users living in Maale Adumim, Ariel and other large Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank protested when...